AP World History Exam Study Guide Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+
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AP World History Exam Study Guide Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+
Civilization - -An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits.
Foragers - -People who supp...
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Civilization - ✔✔-An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used
by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits.
Foragers - ✔✔-People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants
and insects.
Cuneiform - ✔✔-A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It
originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to
represent other languages of western Asia. Because so many symbols had to be learned, literacy was
confined to a relatively small group of administrators and scribes.
History - ✔✔-The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and
transformation of cultural practices.
City-state - ✔✔-A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding
agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia, classical Greece, Phoenicia,
and early Italy.
Culture - ✔✔-Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression. Material _____ refers to physical
objects, such as dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts. _____ also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and
technology.
Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Revolution-When? - ✔✔-The change from food gathering to food
production that occurred between 8000 and 2000 B.C.E., independently in various parts of the world.
This also includes the domestication of plants and animals.
,Paleolithic - ✔✔-The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the
Neolithic period.
Neolithic - ✔✔-The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution (s). It
follows the Paleolithic period.
Mohenjo-Darro - ✔✔-Largest of the cities of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the
extensive floodplain of the Indus River in contemporary Pakistan. Little is known about the political
institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large scale of construction at Mohenjo-Daro, the
orderly grid for streets, and the standardization of building materials are evidence of central planning.
Name the 4 river valleys where civilization began. - ✔✔-1) Mesopotamia, 2) Egypt, 3) Pakistan, 4)
northern China
What are the characteristics of civilization? - ✔✔-1) Cities that serve as administrative centers, 2) a
political system based on control of defined territory, 3) specialization, 4) status based on wealth, 5)
monumental buildings, 6) a writing system, 7) long distance trade, and 8) major advancements in
science and art.
Loess - ✔✔-A fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River
Valley in northern China. Because _____ soil is not compacted, it can be worked with a simple digging
stick, but it leaves the region vulnerable to devastating earthquakes.
Daoism - ✔✔-Chinese school of thought, originating in the Warring States Period with Laozi. Daoism
offered an alternative to the Confucian emphasis on hierarchy and duty. Daoists believe that the world
is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it,
avoid futile struggles, and deviate as little as possible from the Dao, or "path" of nature.
Legalism - ✔✔-An authoritarian political philosophy that came to be called ____. These thinkers believe
human nature is essentially wicked and that people behave in an orderly fashion only if compelled by
strict laws and harsh punishments.
Confucius - ✔✔-Western name for the Chinese philosopher Konzi (551-479 B.C.E.). His doctrine of duty
and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct
for government officials.
, Mandate of Heaven - ✔✔-Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, according to
which it was the prerogative of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the rule of China and to take
away that power if the ruler failed to conduct himself justly and in the best interests of his subjects.
Shang - ✔✔-The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca.
1750-1045 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship, divination by means of oracle bones, and the use of bronze vessels
for ritual purposes were major elements of _____ culture.
Hittites - ✔✔-A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the late
Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the _____
vied with New Kingdom Egypt for control of Syria-Palestine before falling to unidentified attackers ca.
1200 B.C.E.
Hatshepsut - ✔✔-Queen of Egypt (r. 1473-1458 B.C.E.). She dispatched a naval expedition down the Red
Sea to Punt (possibly northeast Sudan or Eretria), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of
opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name and image were frequently defaced.
Akhenaten - ✔✔-Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.) He built a new capital at Amarna, fostered a
new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk. The
Amarna letters, largely from his reign, preserve official correspondence with subjects and neighbors.
Ramesses II - ✔✔-A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an
accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a standoff in battle at Kadesh in Syria. He built on a
grand scale throughout Egypt.
Minoan - ✔✔-Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. The
Minoans engaged in far-flung commerce around the Mediterranean and exerted powerful cultural
influences on the early Greeks.
Mycenae - ✔✔-Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age
kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon, who commanded the
Greeks besieging Troy. Contemporary archaeologists call the complex Greek society of the second
millennium B.C.E. "Mycenaean."
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